TY - BOOK AU - Bright,Charles TI - The powers that punish: prison and politics in the era of the "Big house," 1920-1955 SN - 0472107321 (cloth : acidfree paper) AV - HV9475.M52 M533 1996 U1 - 365/.9774 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Michigan State Prison KW - History KW - Prisons KW - Michigan KW - Jackson KW - Corrections KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes index; Introduction : the prison and its political contexts -- Prohibition, patronage, and profit : building the new prison at Jackson -- Scandals, probes, and purges : the politics of reform -- Uniform discipline and individual treatment : the new model of corrections and the Jackson riot of 1952 -- Dressage to dungeons : marking trajectories of change in modern penology ER -